For 2024, I’m continuing on with the Studio Organizing Challenges!
I’ve been making pretty good progress each year from these challenges, and as I get my studio more and more organized, I have come to realize that organizing is an on-going job. You can’t do it once and expect it to magically stay that way. You have to stay on top of it and keep working at it.
I’ve also realized that if you do it regularly, it’s much easier to keep things from turning into a big mess that is much harder to deal with!
For 2024, I’m once again offering two challenges a month, one on or around the 10th, and the other on or around the 25th, and occasionally skipping one here and there!
I hope you’ll join in!
You can check out the tasks from past years below. Click the links to view the details of each challenge.
September Organizing Challenge
Studio Organizing Challenge #1: Work on organizing your books and magazines
January 4: Deal with paper clutter
January 11: Clean off computer files
January 18: Choose an old UFO to work on
January 25: Work on organizing your books and magazines (and patterns)
February 1: Organize something that is bothering you
February 8: Clean out your sewing box
February 22: Clean out a drawer or clean off a shelf
February 29: Clean up the floor in your sewing room
March 7: Clean up the area around your sewing machine
March 14: Organize your thread
March 21: Clean off your cutting table
March 28: Choose something YOU want to organize
April 11: Clean off a shelf or clean out a drawer
April 18: Revisit a previous task that you still need to work on
April 25: Pick one thing you’ve been procrastinating on organizing and just do it
May 2: Choose a UFO to work on
May 9: Spend at least 15 minutes putting things away
May 16: Revisit a previous task
June 6: Clean off your main work surface
June 13: Clean up the area around your sewing machine OR
Give your sewing machine a good cleaning
June 20: Organize your notions
July 18: Pick a project to use some of your scraps in
July 25: Work on organizing your scraps
August 8: Change your rotary cutter blade OR
Clean off and backup your computer files
August 22: Clean up the floor area in your sewing room/Eradicate a pile
October 3: Put away stray fabric
October 24: Choose an area to reset, redesign, reboot, or overhaul
November 7: Choose one thing from Sherri’s list that you’d like to do
November 14: Clean off your main work surface
November 21: Spend at least 30 minutes putting things away
December 5: Clean out a drawer
December 12: Pick a WIP to finish
January 1: Organize your oldest UFO
January 8: Work on organizing your magazines or books
January 15: Change your rotary cutter blade
January 22: Organize your marking pens and pencils
January 29: Clean out and organize one drawer
February 5: Clean off your cutting table or main work area
February 12: Learn to use a new tool
February 19: Put away stray fabric and other items
February 26: Deal with the paper clutter
March 5: Revisit a previous task and work on it again
March 12: Organize your thread
March 19: Clean out one drawer
March 26: Work on your one UFO that is closest to finished
April 9: Choose one small area that needs attention and work on it
April 16: Organize your ruler collection
April 23: Clean up the area around your sewing machine
April 30: Choose 10 things to deal with
May 7: Clean your sewing machine (or have it serviced)
May 14: Put together a travel sewing kit
May 21: Clean out a storage area
May 28: Clean out a fabric bin
June 4: Revisit a previous task and work on it again
June 18: Work on organizing your magazines or books
July 9: Fix something that’s broken
July 16: Clean off your cutting table or main work surface
July 23: Deal with the scrap pile
August 6: Clean up and back up your computer files
August 13: Choose 10 things to deal with
August 20: Choose one thing you’ve discovered needs more work, and work on it
August 27: Organize your finished quilts
September 3: Clean out and organize one drawer
September 10: Clean out or reorganize a fabric storage area
September 17: Organize your hand sewing supplies
September 24: Pick a UFO to concentrate on
October 1: Revisit a previous task and work on it again
October 8: Organize your needles
October 15: Work on organizing books and magazines (and patterns)
October 22: Clean out a drawer
October 29: Choose 3 things you’ve been putting off doing and do them
November 5: Clean your sewing machine and the area around it
November 19: Put away stray fabric/organize a fabric bin
November 26: Clean out a drawer
December 3: Try to finish a UFO
December 10: Clean up the floor in your sewing area